Gopi Sundar Quotes

The whole time after you record an album, you're just waiting for the release date. You're waiting for fans to hear it and stuff.

The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.

I'm actually going to self-produce my next tape that I'm working on, 'Platinum Frame'. This going to be my second official mixtape.

I make records all the time. But making records is not quite the same as getting them to the audience.

Once we put 'So Anxious' out, it was a wrap.

Even though I haven't released a song since 2010, I have still performed, so I don't feel I have been completely away from music. I have been away on a mainstream level, of course. But releasing a single this way - on my own independent record label - is more fun.

We are a business, and you do a little of what you think's right, pay your bills, and attract... a single record attracts attention to your concerts and your albums.

I can reach the mass audience if I come from different perspectives on every song.

You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.

There are three things we need to do for a band. We need to make a great record; we need to get the record played; and we need to find an audience for the live shows.

Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.

I don't spend much time listening to the records when they're done. Usually I let go of it. Especially in the Eighties and Nineties - they were like product, almost.

I feel like I'd like to continue putting out records and start putting them out more rapidly than I have until now and for me if I can keep selling the records to the fans that already like me that's fine.

It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it.

I think when you put a new record out, everyone has a song or two that they feel people will be moved by so much that radio will be forced to play it.

I never thought of myself as capable of stirring up - generating - the actual drumroll for a record, you know, all the press.

It doesn't take a year to sing a song. Takes a year for people to figure out how to market it.

It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.

Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because people aren't buying records anymore.

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song.

U2 albums never get finished. They just get released.

There's timing. And then there's also certain people at the record company who worked incredibly hard and were incredibly enthusiastic about what I was doing.

I like the idea that people hear my stuff, and if it's commercially successful, that's a good sign that it's being heard.